On Oct. 2, New Tang Dynasty Television, a station linked to the Chinese spiritual movement Falun Gong, posted a Facebook video of a woman saving a baby shark stranded on a shore. Next to the video was a link to subscribe to The Epoch Times, a newspaper that is tied to Falun Gong and that spreads anti-China and right-wing conspiracies. The post collected 33,000 likes, comments and shares.
10月2日,有着中国精神运动法轮功背景的新唐人电视台在Facebook上发布了一段视频,内容是一名女子拯救搁浅在岸边的小鲨鱼。视频旁边有一个订阅《大纪元时报》的链接,该报与法轮功关系紧密,散布反华和右翼阴谋论。该帖得到了3.3万个赞、评论和转发。
The website of Dr. Joseph Mercola, an osteopathic physician who researchers say is a chief spreader of coronavirus misinformation online, regularly posts about cute animals that generate tens or even hundreds of thousands of interactions on Facebook. The stories include “Kitten and Chick Nap So Sweetly Together” and “Why Orange Cats May Be Different From Other Cats,” written by Dr. Karen Becker, a veterinarian.
约瑟夫·麦科拉博士是一名骨科医师,研究人员称他是新冠病毒虚假信息的主要网络传播者,他的网站经常在Facebook上发布可爱小动物的帖子,产生数万甚至数十万次互动,包括《小猫和小鸡在一起睡得好甜蜜》和《为什么橘猫可能与众不同》,这些故事由兽医凯伦·贝克尔博士撰写。
And Western Journal, a right-wing publication that has published unproven claims about the benefits of using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, and spread falsehoods about fraud in the 2020 presidential election, owns Liftable Animals, a popular Facebook page. Liftable Animals posts stories from Western Journal’s main website alongside stories about golden retrievers and giraffes.
右翼出版物《西方日报》(The Western Journal)发表了使用羟氯喹治疗新冠的好处,但这些说法未经证实。它还散布了有关2020年总统大选作假的谎言。《西方日报》拥有热门Facebook页面“可以抱的动物(Liftable Animals)”。除了金毛猎犬和长颈鹿,该页面还发布来自《西方日报》主站的报道。
Videos and GIFs of cute animals — usually cats — have gone viral online for almost as long as the internet has been around. Many of the animals became famous: There’s Keyboard Cat, Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub and Nyan Cat, just to name a few.
自从有互联网以来,可爱小动物——一般是猫——的视频和动图就在网上广泛流传。其中不少都出名了:弹琴猫(Keyboard Cat)、不爽猫(Grumpy Cat)、抱抱(Lil Bub)和彩虹猫(Nyan Cat)等等。